College Tour

*College Tour*
College Tour
	Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte on the show in late 2011.
Created by	Twan Huys
Based on	Town hall meetings
Starring	Twan Huys
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original languages	Dutch or English, depending on the guest
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	100
Production
Production location	Varying
Running time	Ca. 50 minutes
Production company	NTR broadcasting
Original release
Network	Netherlands Public Broadcasting system, channel NPO 3
Release	December 4, 2007 –; 2017

College Tour is a TV-show in the Netherlands, that interviews the most high-profile Dutch and international guests. Inspired by town hall meetings during United States elections, the majority of questions are asked by the audience. The show is hosted by news anchor Twan Huys, who conceived its format while working as U.S. correspondent in New York and Washington D.C. from 1999–2007.^[1]

Similar to Inside the Actors Studio, College Tour typically features one guest per episode, and an audience of a few hundred students — however guests can be from all walks of life, including politicians, entrepreneurs, musicians and lawyers. Foreign guests have included Bill Gates, Shimon Peres, Sting and the Dalai Lama. Dutch interviews have featured football legend Johan Cruijff, astronaut André Kuipers and formerly Dutch activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Although College Tour aims to be weekly, episodes are only produced as sufficiently interesting guests can be found available. It is claimed that audience questions are not pre-screened, and there is no censorship on language used. Interviews with international celebrities are done completely in English, including the questions posed by the audience. Broadcasts feature the original sound with Dutch subtitles — there is no audio dubbing. Commercial breaks are absent.
Recording takes place in varying venues — frequently (movie) theatres, conference rooms, or sometimes a church. Occasionally the show is taken abroad to meet up with stars who are willing, but unable to visit the Netherlands. In a few cases, special venues were arranged, for instance when Da Vinci Code writer Dan Brown was interviewed in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, in front of famous painting The Night Watch.

Episodes[edit]

First airdate	Guest	Images
2007
4 December 2007	Hans Teeuwen
13 December 2007	Jan Jaap van der Wal
2008
10 January 2008	Joop van den Ende
17 January 2008	Neelie Kroes
24 January 2008	Gerard Spong
21 February 2008	Madeleine Albright
5 June 2008	Johan Cruijff
13 November 2008	Nick Leeson
2009
24 January 2009	John Malkovich
25 March 2009	Peter van Uhm
1 April 2009	Jesse Jackson
22 April 2009	Rem Koolhaas
13 May 2009	Wouter Bos
3 June 2009	Dalai Lama
10 June 2009	Princess Irene of the Netherlands
11 October 2009	Steve Ballmer
2010
15 February 2010	Harry Mulisch
23 March 2010	Ayaan Hirsi Ali
1 June 2010	Jan Peter Balkenende
7 June 2010	Dries van Agt and Hans Wiegel
9 September 2010	Doutzen Kroes
11 November 2010	Louis van Gaal
2011
11 February 2011	Bram Moszkowicz
14 February 2011	Maxime Verhagen
24 March 2011	Alain Ducasse
31 March 2011	Linda de Mol
8 September 2011	Youp van 't Hek
15 September 2011	Seth Meyers
19 November 2011	Richard Branson
19 December 2011	Mark Rutte
2012
17 February 2012	Matthijs van Nieuwkerk
24 February 2012	Rijkman Groenink
2 March 2012	John de Mol
9 March 2012	Sting
1 June 2012	Eric Schmidt
30 August 2012	André Kuipers
14 September 2012	Wim Anker
21 September 2012	Desmond Tutu
28 September 2012	Janine Jansen
5 October 2012	David Sedaris
12 October 2012	Willem Holleeder
19 October 2012	Sonja Barend
2 November 2012	Susan Sarandon
2013
2 February 2013	Bernardo Bertolucci
17 February 2013	Richard Gere
1 March 2013	Guus Hiddink
8 March 2013	Whoopi Goldberg
15 March 2013	Eddie Izzard
29 March 2013	Diederik Samsom
5 April 2013	Carice van Houten
12 April 2013	Nigella Lawson
24 May 2013	A.F.Th. van der Heijden
6 September 2013	Frank de Boer
13 September 2013	Armin van Buuren
20 September 2013	Frans de Waal
27 September 2013	Karin Slaughter
4 October 2013	Shimon Peres
11 October 2013	Epke Zonderland
18 October 2013	Robbie Williams
25 October 2013	Ruby Wax
1 November 2013	Malala Yousafzai
2014
7 February 2014	Dan Brown
14 February 2014	Michaela DePrince
21 February 2014	Erwin Olaf
7 March 2014	Derk Sauer
14 March 2014	Frans Timmermans
21 March 2014	Klaas Knot
28 March 2014	John Legend
4 April 2014	Jaap van Zweden
29 August 2014	Arjen Robben
5 September 2014	Marlene Dumas
12 September 2014	Jeremy Paxman
19 September 2014	Jerry Springer
26 September 2014	Famke Janssen
3 October 2014	Afrojack
17 October 2014	Gerrit Zalm
24 October 2014	Stromae
31 October 2014	Johnny de Mol
6 November 2014	Thomas Piketty
7 November 2014	Anouk
14 November 2014	Bill Gates
25 December 2014	John Cleese
2015
20 February 2015	Ronald Koeman
27 February 2015	Arnon Grunberg
6 March 2015	Herman Finkers
8 March 2015	Remco Campert
13 March 2015	Lodewijk Asscher
20 March 2015	Chantal Janzen
27 March 2015	Louis Theroux
4 September 2015	Halina Reijn
11 September 2015	Jeroen Dijsselbloem
18 September 2015	Guus Meeuwis
25 September 2015	Anton Corbijn
9 October 2015	Denis Mukwege
16 October 2015	Rod Stewart
30 December 2015	Herman Finkers
2016
5 February 2016	Jane Goodall
12 February 2016	Herman van Veen
19 February 2016	Daan Roosegaarde
26 February 2016	Floortje Dessing
4 March 2016	Ahmed Aboutaleb
15 April 2016	Carl Bernstein
16 September 2016	Jochem Myjer
23 September 2016	Ai Weiwei
30 September 2016	Reed Hastings
7 October 2016	Igone de Jongh
14 October 2016	Geert Mak
21 October 2016	Khadija Arib
2017
7 April 2017	Ed Sheeran
21 April 2017	Christiane Amanpour
28 April 2017	Ben Feringa
5 May 2017	Ellen Laan
12 May 2017	Arjen Lubach
19 May 2017	Ali B
10 November 2017	Frans Lanting